Presenting joint work with Michael Jankowski and Markus Tepe titled “Discrimination in Public Hiring? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment among Citizens and Future Bureaucrats” on the annual conference of the European Consortium of Political Research in Hamburg from 22.-25. August 2018.
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EPSA General Conference, 2018
Presenting joint work with Michael Jankowski and Markus Tepe titled “Discrimination in Public Hiring? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment among Citizens and Future Bureaucrats” on the annual conference of the European Political Science Association in Vienna/Austria from 21.-23. June 2018.
Annual Meeting of the DVPW working group decision theory, 2018
Presenting recent work toward the behavioral consequences of self-reported risk attitudes on experimentally measured risk behavior and how this relationship is moderated by gender (“Risk attitudes, gender, and risk behavior: Evidence from two laboratory experiments”) at the annual meeting of the DVPW working group decision theory (AK Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheory) in Oldenburg/Germany from 31. May to 1. June 2018.
Publication JPART March 2018
Are future bureaucrats more risk averse? The effect of studying public administration and PSM on risk preferences (with Markus Tepe)
Abstract:
This study tests the effect of studying public administration and self-reported Public Service Motivation (PSM) on risk preferences. We conduct a compound lottery choice experiment with monetary rewards to measure risk behavior and a post-experiment survey to measure risk attitudes and PSM on three student subject pools. Empirical findings suggest that: First, students of public administration consider themselves more risk averse, but they do not behave more risk averse in the compound lottery choice experiment than business sciences and law students. Second, self-reported PSM is positively associated with risk-averse behavior in the compound lottery choice experiment. Thus, contrary to the popular stereotypical description of bureaucratic behavior, there are no substantive differences in risk behavior among future bureaucrats compared to other student groups.
PSA Annual Conference, 2018
Presenting joint work with Michael Jankowski and Markus Tepe titled “Discrimination in Public Hiring? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment among Citizens and Future Bureaucrats” on the annual conference of the Political Studies Association in Cardiff/Wales from 26.-28. March 2018.
DAAD grant approved
I am very grateful to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) approving my grant for a two month research stay at the School of Public Affairs and Administration Rutgers University, Newark/New Jersey, USA (3,800 Euro).
Book chapter from Cambridge University Press in July 2017
Out now: Experiments in Public Administration Research: Challenges and Contributions, edited by Oliver James, Sebastian Jilke, and Gregg Van Ryzin. Together with Markus Tepe I contributed the chapter “Laboratory Experiments: Their Potential for Public Management Research”
ECPR General Conference, 2017
Presenting joint work with Markus Tepe titled “Are future bureaucrats more punishing? The Effect of PSM and studying Public Administration on Contributions and Punishment in the Public Goods Game” on the annual conference of the European Consortium of Political Research in Oslo from September 2017.
EPSA General Conference, 2017
Presenting joint work with Markus Tepe titled “Advocating the public good? Comparing students of Public Administration and Business Science in a public goods game with and without punishment” on the annual conference of the European Political Science Association in Milano/Italy in June 2017.
IJHRM special issue seminar, 2015
Presenting joint work with Bernhard Kittel and Markus Tepe titled “What matters most? How the type and length of service provision conditions the effect of public sector employment on PSM” IJHRM Special Issue Seminar Strategic Human Resource Management and Public Sector Performance at the Utrecht University School of Governance/The Netherlands in May 2015.